The financial services firm’s guidance takes a different path than the traditional 4%-a-year strategy. Researchers compare ...

I'm 52, saving 10% of my paycheck for retirement — but my husband isn't saving anything. What do I do? We adhere to strict ...

I explore this effect in this piece, leveraging data from 2025 EBRI RCS, where I find clear evidence that retirement confidence increases the most for those with access to advice who have a lower ...

Someone who is reaching retirement age today but who didn't start saving until the age of 40 is probably following advice from the mid-1990s -- around the time that floppy disks were being phased ...

Many workers aged 50 or older prefer to handle retirement planning themselves, and a relatively large number are skeptical of working with a financial professional on their post-work finances, ...

Michael and Christina Pirog have a home, a 529 and retirement accounts. But they also have a lot of credit-card debt. A ...

No. 3: Max Out Your Retirement Account Contributions An Individual Retirement Account (IRA) allows you to save for retirement with tax-free growth or on a tax-deferred basis. You can invest in a ...

From the day you get your first job, you are encouraged to sign up for the company 401(k), contribute the maximum and take all the free money you can get. Most people take this advice and fund ...

This isn’t the first effort to update the federal retirement law known as ERISA, which was enacted in 1974 to oversee private pension plans before 401(k)s existed.